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Hub motors: failure for anything beyond a NEV. Unsprung weight is the enemy of handling, shaking a motor around is the enemy of making it efficient.
A solar collector roof would have prevented the car from being open-top, which would have stopped some of us from buying it. Not going to miss it, as it wouldn't have extended the range, and taking the top off will cool the car in 30 seconds anyway.
And I kind of like the open, airy interior - heck of a lot better than the Audi/VW interiors that remind me of some sort of black Atari dungeon.
And I find the revisionist history on why the A-class wasn't brought over here to be amusing.
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